It's now our second week in New York City. We are getting more used to being here and culture shock is minimum. :) Until yesterday we've been doing our own reaching out, like treasure hunting. With Treasure hunting a person is the treasure. You pray and ask God who He wants to encourage, you ask were you can find that person, how he looks like, what is he wearing, colors etc, are there any injuries or a word that God want to communicate. And treasures has been found yesterday! :)
Today we went up to Chelsea park in Manhattan area and worked along side The Relief Bus, check www.reliefbus.org ! The Relief Bus is a ministry who reaches out to the poorest people in the City, mainly homeless. They have different places where they come every week to hand out food, as much as they want like soup & hot chocolate, bread & fruit. Today they also handed out toothpaste & socks. When people are interested they give information about different shelters, bible programs & link them with organisations who provide jobs from them. It was so cool to work together with them today and we will be doing this more often during our outreach. We met them at 10.00 AM. We were there a little before and when the bus got at the spot we already saw people waiting in line!!! first we got an introduction about the Relief Bus and how everything worked. Then very quickly we started to work. Some of us explored the spot to see where we could perform & others helped in the 'kitchen'. Handing out food & pouring soup in the cups. It was so much fun! The people who came there are usually just by them self not talking to anyone during the week. and seeing them at the bus they knew it's a safe place and then we got to see their hearts, so beautiful!! We performed the Lifehouse skit, look at Life House Skit if you're not familiar with it. Silvia was Jesus & Maja was the girl. When we were done a woman came up to Silvia & hold here hand when they walked up to Maja, she hugged Maja and had tears in her eyes! The skit really touched here! It is such a beautiful thing, spending time with people who not always accepted. Just there thankfulness! They are so thankful. After we were done we got to here that we hand out 500 cups of soup and about 200 cups of hot chocolate! And one person gave HIS LIFE TO JESUS TODAY!! AMEN
So yes we as a team were cold standing outside for more than 4 hours but that's nothing compared to what some of the people we met today are dealing with! And it was more than worth it!! We are looking forward to next week as we will be working with The Relief Bus on Thursday up to South Bronx & Friday to Harlem. Please keep reminding us in your prayers; we would love to perform more skits & use our art to encourage the people also pray that we'll be able to show people the way to Jesus! =D God is so good!!
